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The 'perpetual fair' : Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London /
Rarely studied as vital to London's modernisation, urban fairs are a microcosm of London's transforming society demonstrating how metropolitan changes were popularly contested. This study contributes to our understanding of popular culture and modernisation in Britain during the formative...
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New York :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: Making a mannered metroplis and taming the 'perpetual fair'
- 'London's Mart': The crowds and culture of eighteenth-century London fairs
- 'Heroick Informers' and London spies: Religion, politeness, and reforming impulses in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth -century London
- Regulation and resistance: Wayward apprentices and other 'evil disposed persons' at London's fairs
- 'Dirty Molly' and 'The Greasier Kate': The feminine threat to urban order
- Locating the fair sex at work
- Clocks, monsters, and drolls: Gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs.